Europeans: Who Are the Sexiest? Rudest? Funniest?

Reader's Digest surveyed 4,000 people in 19 countries to find out which country or nationality was considered most likable, least likable, the rudest, the sexiest, most open-minded, etc.:


The European family just got a whole lot bigger, with the accession of ten new states to the EU in May.
But in every family some get along better with each other than others. So we thought it was a good time to ask Europeans what they actually felt about each other.
To find out, Reader's Digest dispatched researchers to 38 towns in 19 countries across Europe, from the UK to Russia, inviting nearly 4,000 respondents to comment on any country but their own.
We asked them such questions as which Europeans they liked most (and least), who were the sexiest, the most efficient, who had the best sense of humour and the best food, and where they'd really like to live.
And according to our survey, we Europeans are in love with Italy, its people and its food. The Italians are the most popular and the sexiest (maybe there's a connection), Italy was the country we'd most like to live in, and Italian the nationality we'd most like to be. Yet Britons might be pleasantly surprised to hear that we're top of the poll on two fronts. We have the best sense of humour, say our fellow Europeans?-it seems they judge us by Basil Fawlty, Monty Python and Mr Bean. And we're thought to have contributed most to the world, with respondents citing football, medicine and industry among others as the reason.
Our survey does support one or two of the sturdiest stereotypes about national characteristics, though: the Germans are rated the most efficient (and the rudest), the Dutch the most open-minded.
Here's how Europeans voted in detail, in a dozen categories:

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